Sunday, March 31, 2024
Ekphrasis for Cormac
Blue
From this journal on October 15, 2023 —
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"Can you make it any more complicated?" |
One approach . . .
Saturday, March 30, 2024
The Hat Tip
Welcome to Scotland.
Related viewing —
"… the essence of what has come to be known as film noir …." —
Related material — Plaid in this journal.
King Solomon’s Minecraft
Schicksalstag 2003
Meanwhile . . .
The above post is from the date of the Hollywood premiere of
"Looney Tunes: Back in Action." See also tonight's previous post
and . . .
"Directed by Joe Dante" . . . See also "The Harrowing."
Friday, March 29, 2024
Tribute from a Cartoon Graveyard: Easter Bunny
Related reading: Blue Monkey.
Hollywood Death on Maniac Monday
See Maniac Monday in this journal and .…
Related reading: "Where credit is due."
Annals of Brainy Verbosity
"Don’t be distracted by the numbers of people who
haven’t heard of ChatGPT yet—the real bellwethers,
particularly among well-educated or younger people,
are in those business numbers. The recent leap in
work use might indicate that those who are already
augmenting their work with the brainy verbosity of LLMs
are advocating it to colleagues."
— Steven Levy at Wired.com today
AI at Noon
https://www.wired.com/story/
plaintext-proof-the-ai-boom-is-people-tapping-chatgpt-at-work/ —
"The sample was taken between February 7 and 11 of this year."
See also, in this journal,
Math for Tricksters: Deck Transformation
From the above Baez essay —
"And when the hero arrives, there should be
a little flourish of trumpets, like:
And now we come to a key player:
the group of deck transformations."
This remark and Baez's statement that
"Ideally the tricks I’m suggesting here
will be almost invisible…."
suggest a non-mathematical "deck transformation"
that some will prefer —
In the March 21 Netflix series "3 Body Problem,"
the deck of the ship Judgment Day is transformed
in a spectacular manner by an invisible trick.

Thursday, March 28, 2024
An Old Sci-Fi Question
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
The Unboxing
Above: Episode 2 of "3 Body Problem" on Netflix. This suggests
a review of the phrase "Set the controls for the heart of the sun."
That phrase appeared here in a post of Wednesday, March 6.
Related material from Boxing Day, 2016 —
"Who knows, really…" — Perhaps James Joyce.
“Manifest” as Magick Verb
From an Instagram ad today —
See also this meaning of "manifest" in Sphere —
novel by Michael Crichton, film by Barry Levinson.
Related material —
"Program or be programmed."
— A saying by the author of the above graphic novel.
Generation
From a New York Times art obituary yesterday by Roberta Smith —
"Although frequently called a Minimalist, he came of age
with the slightly younger Post-Minimalist generation
and helped define its concerns."
And then there is the Post-it Minimalist generation . . .
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Pour les petites
"This is by way of a pep talk, mes petites . . ."
Musical and theatrical accompaniment . . .
Musical: Valse pour les petites , reportedly recorded on March 2, 2019;
Theatrical: A Log24 post from that same date, Schoolgirls for Galois.
Kindergarten Report on Fröbel’s Third Gift:
“Behaves well under group action.”
From the above: "electronically published on October 6. 2023."
See as well that date in other Log24 posts tagged The Prize Shining.
A co-author of the book reviewed has appeared here previously.
“Behaves well under group action.”
Monday, March 25, 2024
B-B-Biennale 2024: Picture at 11!
The above solar art is . . .
(By John Baez, cousin of Joan)
(The Baez art was also displayed here on Saturday, March 23, 2024 —
the second day of the 2024 Biennale in the Desert Sun article.)
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Religious Art: Scene of the Articulation*
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Annals of Deceptive Fiction: Life of Pi
The image of a mathematician reading Life of Pi in today's 8:36 AM ET post
suggests some further reading, not about a fictional tiger —
- Wikipedia on the life of Richard A. Parker and
- Robert A. Wilson on the mathematics of Richard A. Parker.
As for the tiger . . .





























